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NEW YORK (AP) — All models of Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards are under recall after at least four deaths and multiple injuries were reported in recent years, federal regulators say. The 300,000 now-recalled skateboards, manufactured by Future Motion, can stop balancing a rider if the boards’ limits are exceeded — which risks serious crashes, according
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief has announced a hike in the national minimum wage. Jeremy Hunt said at the governing Conservative Party’s annual conference on Monday that the hourly rate for workers 23 and older will rise in April from 10.42 pounds, or $12.70, to at least 11
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The City of Palm Springs reopened N. Gene Autry Trail to all traffic Monday morning shortly after 8:00 a.m. after closing the road Saturday due to blowing sand and low visibility. “N Gene Autry north of Via Escuela and south of Salvia at the Wash is OPEN,” said a statement from the Palm Springs Police
Continue ReadingMOREAU, N.Y. (AP) — Law enforcement, forest rangers and others are searching an upstate New York park for a 9-year-old girl who vanished during a camping trip over the weekend. Authoritie say Charlotte Sena may have been abducted while riding her bicycle Saturday evening in Moreau Lake State Park, about 35 miles north of Albany.
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A documentary chronicling Beyoncé‘s just-concluded 39-city Renaissance World Tour will premiere in North American theaters Dec. 1, AMC Theaters announced Monday. The film adds a second pop star blockbuster to a fall slate of movies that’s been slightly thinned out by the ongoing screen actors’
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The fraud lawsuit that could cost former President Donald Trump control of some of his most prized properties went to trial Monday, with New York state lawyers vowing to hold him accountable while he denounced the case as a politically motivated “scam.”
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — At the start of the year, content creator Jess Stone was enjoying an epic motorcycle journey around the world with her beloved dog on the back of her bike and her husband Greg riding behind them. But within months, everything had changed. In March, Greg was hit by a
Continue ReadingBy Olivia Kalentek, Olivia Schueller and Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story WATERTOWN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A 14-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the head after getting his hands on an unsecured firearm at a home in Watertown, police said. It happened around around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at a home on
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Authorities in the southern Spanish city of Murcia say two people believed to have been in a nightclub where 13 others died in a fire are still missing. They say the club was operating without a permit. Francisco Jiménez, the central government’s official for the region, says the dead included the nationals
Continue ReadingBy Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story LEDYARD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A woman upset with being at a group home in Ledyard is accused of smashing workers’ vehicles. Anesis “Starr” Wilson-Jones, 18, was charged with first-degree criminal mischief. Police said the incident happened at a group home on Church Hill Road on
Continue ReadingBy KCTV Staff Click here for updates on this story OLATHE, Kansas (KCTV) — Officials at the Johnson County Executive Airport confirmed that there were no injuries in a single aircraft crash Sunday afternoon. Around 1 p.m., an unidentified pilot flying alone in a Cessna 182 was approaching Runway 18 of the Executive Airport when
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up an appeal from an anti-abortion group known for releasing secretly recorded footage of abortion providers, leaving in place a lower court ruling that went in favor of Planned Parenthood. The anti-abortion group had argued that
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British media are reporting that a second British police force is looking into sexual offenses allegedly committed by actor and comedian Russell Brand. The BBC, PA news agency and others reported that Thames Valley Police was taking a fresh look at allegations previously made by a woman against Brand between 2018 and
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting Monday as the constrictor of higher interest rates tightens its coils around Wall Street. The S&P 500 was 0.2% lower in morning trading, coming off its worst month of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 117 points, or
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them. The global advocacy group End Clergy Abuse is seeking to draw attention to the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church and the failure
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By Paul P. Murphy, CNN (CNN) — Two people are dead after a suspected grizzly bear attack in Canada’s Banff National Park, officials said. Rescuers were first alerted to the incident around 8 p.m. Friday after receiving “an alert from an inReach/GPS device indicating a bear attack,” the national park said in a statement. The
Continue ReadingPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court in Cambodia has barred three environmental activists from traveling to Sweden next month to receive the prestigious Right Livelihood Award. A copy of a letter from the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s chief prosecutor said in response to a travel request from the members of the group Mother Nature
Continue ReadingBy Soyoung Kim and KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A woman was stabbed, and a suspect was later arrested for attempted murder on Friday in southwest Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. PPB said just before 8:30 a.m. Friday, officers responded to a hospital for a
Continue ReadingBy BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Tuareg rebels in Mali say they have captured another military base from the army in the country’s north, as fighting intensifies. Attaye Ag Mohamed, spokesman for the Azawad armed movement, says the rebels seized the military base in the city of Bamba between Timbuktu and Gao
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump denounced the civil fraud case over his business practices as a politically motivated “scam” as he arrived defiantly for a trial in the lawsuit, which could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties. “This is a continuation of
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